Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to
keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
author speaker Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Sunday, February eight,
twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
where we give you God's word every single day and
today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
study series uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians,
and our caption for today is role Model's role Models.
Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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Some of you have already seen it. At eight am
on Sunday mornings, we have the new Sunday School of Thought.
And for those who care, there is a reason for this.
It is for evangelistic purposes. You will share this with
your friends. It's about thirty minutes in length and based
on the book Evangelism, page two hundred and forty four.
I will not teach about it. You will go research
it and then you will understand why the Lord is saying.
This is what we will do here at your Daily Portion. Okay,
let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,
we do thank you, Thank you for this day. Please
teach us to seize the day and live as role models.
And if there's someone who's following Christ, help us to
follow suit. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and a
man again, let's go ahead and jump into the Bible
Book of Philippians. Somebody's catching up, like what evangelism, page
two forty four. What yeah read that today? Please before
eight am? All right? So Philippians, chapter three, and I'll
read verses seventeen through nineteen the Book of Philippians chapter three,
Versus seventeen through nineteen, and the Bible reads, be imitators
of me, brothers and sisters, and watch carefully those who
are living this way, just as you have us as
an example. So he's saying, be an imitator of people
who live according to God's principles. We're not people pleasing.
We are not running after human individuals as if they
are the standard. That's not the goal. So if you
see something in me, let's make it modern. You listen
to me, you watch me every single day. Right, If
you see something positive, this is evangelistic, So imitate that.
If I am kind, I want you to imitate that,
that's really coming from Christ. If you see that I'm
here all the time, never fail, I'm faithful at this,
then really you're imitating the faithfulness that you see in
a human being. But that faithfulness comes from the author
and finisher of our faith. If you see someone that
treats their spouse as God would have them treat the spouse.
I have twenty four years of treating simon the way
that God says. So you want to imitate that, not
because it's me, but because that is a spiritual principle
coming directly from God. You understand, be imitators of me,
Paul said, Brothers and sisters, and watch carefully those who
are living this way, just as you have us as
an example. For many live, for many live about whom
I have often told you, And now with tears, I
tell you that they are enemies of the Cross of Christ.
So he's saying, don't do that, Do not do that.
Do not be enemies of the Cross of Christ. Don't
do that because we're not doing that Verse nineteen. Their
end is destruction. Their God is their belly. They exult
in their shame, and they think about earthly things. That's
where their focus is. Don't do that, right, their destruction
and whose God is their belly is their shame. Those
who think of earthly things. That is the what not
to do list. Okay, So imitate the spiritual blessing of
the lifestyle of people who are living according to God's principles.
That's as simple as we can make it. And so
in that vein, I'm going to give one quote here
from an eighteen eighteen sixty eight that's a year right, Yes,
I'm going back there in eighteen sixty eight quote from
the reviewer in Herald, and it reads, the Christian becomes
a living epistle. That's a letter in a living epistle
the world reads in his life the doctrine he professes.
This is why when you're at work and people see you,
God forbid, see you doing a certain thing, or speaking
a certain way, or behaving in a certain way. And
they say, but people of your faith community don't do
that because they've been reading the letter. Okay. And then
from messages to young people page thirty six, Yes, we
can still benefit from that because I know the majority
of you are not young people, and neither am I.
But here we go. Every act of life is a
revelation of character, and by our example we lead others
either nearer to Christ or farther from him. Let me
say it again, every act of this life or life
is a revelation of character. So whenever I'm doing anything,
it's showing, Okay, what kind of character does he have?
And by our example we lead others either nearer to Christ.
This is a This is a decision that we need
to be making every day, all day long, with what
we say and what we do, what we say and
what we do, what we say and what we refrain
from doing, what we refrain from saying, and what we
refrain from doing. All of that should be giving us
one of the one or the other outcomes, either nearer
to Christ or farther from Him. Pick a side, choose
you this day whom ye will serve, either the wickedness
or God. Pick aside. And of course God always implores
us to choose Him, choose life, choose holiness. Okay, And
so our first lesson in that case is role model
shape spiritual direction. So believers must intentionally follow that direction
after the pattern of Christ. Again in verse seventeen, I'll
read it one more time, verse seventeen. Be followers of me,
and mark them which walk as ye have done, Mark
them which also walk as ye have us. For an example,
and I won't tell you the story, but there were
a couple of people that I said many years ago,
I'm talking about more than twenty years ago. I want
to be just like you when it comes to broadcasting
the word of God around the world. And well, I
kind of do that today. You see what I'm saying.
So that was one thing I wanted to imitate, watch closely,
examine carefully. So identify one spiritually trustworthy person. We're not
worshiping them, we are not following them. You can even
go in the Bible and read and say, like, for me,
the person is Joseph. Okay, that's the one whose model,
whose model I follow. And then Solomon on the upside,
on the positive side, regarding wisdom, I ask God directly
and deliberately to give me double of what God gave
Solomon in terms of wisdom. And so identify one spiritually
trustworthy person you can observe more intentionally this week. And
if it's a human that's still alive, I want you
to schedule a time if possible, to learn from them.
Oh oh yeah, yeah, we want to be really intentional. Okay,
I said. I went to a human and said I
wanted to be like this that you do. Yeah, schedule
some time if possible. Okay. Number two. Lesson Number two.
Bad role models live by earthly appetites. Their example leads
people away from the path of God. And so what
do we want to do. Examine one habit influenced by
worldly voices and replace it with scripture centered alternative for
the next seven days. If you overeat, go into Bible,
find out what the Bible says about that, and do
what the Bible says. All right, So we have role models,
but more importantly, be a role model as you follow Christ. Peace.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,